Tour de l'Avenir
Race details | |
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Date | September |
Region | France |
English name | Tour of the Future |
Local name(s) | Tour de l'Avenir Template:Fr icon |
Discipline | Road |
Competition | UCI Nations Cup |
Type | Stage race |
Organiser | Amaury Sport Organisation |
Web site | tourdelavenir |
History | |
First edition | 1961 |
Editions | 51 (as of 2014) |
First winner | Guido De Rosso (ITA) |
Most wins | Serguei Soukhoroutchenkov (URS) (2 wins) |
Most recent | Marc Soler (ESP) |
Tour de l'Avenir (English: Tour of the Future) is a French road bicycle racing stage race, which started in 1961[1] as a race similar to the Tour de France and over much of the same course but for amateurs and for semi-professionals known as independents. Felice Gimondi, Joop Zoetemelk, Greg LeMond, Miguel Indurain and Laurent Fignon won the Tour de l'Avenir[2] and went on to win 12 Tours de France between them.
The race was created in 1961 by Jacques Marchand, the editor of L'Equipe,[3] to attract teams from the Soviet Union and other communist nations that had no professional riders to enter the Tour de France. Until 1967, it took place earlier the same day as some of the stages of the Tour de France and shared the latter part of each stage's route, but moved to September and a separate course from 1968 onwards.[4] It became the Grand Prix de l'Avenir in 1970, the Trophée Peugeot de l'Avenir from 1972 to 1979 and the Tour de la Communauté Européenne from 1986 to 1990. It was restricted to amateurs from 1961 to 1980, before opening to professionals in 1981. After 1992, it was open to all riders of less than 25[3] and is now for riders 23 or younger.[5][6]
Since 2007, the tour has been a national team competition with the 2013 edition involving the following countries:
France, Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, Germany, Slovenia, Great Britain, Italy, Kazakhstan, Denmark, Colombia, Australia, Russia, United States, Ukraine, Spain, Austria, Switzerland, Latvia, plus a mixed team from the World Cycling Centre
Previous winners
Year | Country | Rider | Team | |
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1961 | Italy | Guido De Rosso | ||
1962 | Spain | Antonio Gomez del Moral | ||
1963 | France | André Zimmermann | ||
1964 | Italy | Felice Gimondi | ||
1965 | Spain | Mariano Diaz | ||
1966 | Italy | Mino Denti | ||
1967 | France | Christian Robini | ||
1968 | France | Jean-Pierre Boulard | ||
1969 | Netherlands | Joop Zoetemelk | ||
1970 | France | Marcel Duchemin | ||
1971 | France | Régis Ovion | ||
1972 | Netherlands | Fedor den Hertog | ||
1973 | Italy | Gianbattista Baronchelli | ||
1974 | Spain | Enrique Martinez Heredia | ||
1975 | No race | |||
1976 | Sweden | Sven-Åke Nilsson | ||
1977 | Belgium | Eddy Schepers | ||
1978 | Soviet Union | Serguei Soukhoroutchenkov | ||
1979 | Soviet Union | Serguei Soukhoroutchenkov | ||
1980 | Colombia | Alfonso Florez | ||
1981 | France | Pascal Simon | Peugeot-Esso-Michelin | |
1982 | United States | Greg LeMond | Renault-Elf | |
1983 | East Germany | Olaf Ludwig | East Germany (national team) | |
1984 | France | Charlie Mottet | Renault-Elf | |
1985 | Colombia | Martín Ramírez | ||
1986 | Spain | Miguel Indurain | You have called {{Contentious topics}} . You probably meant to call one of these templates instead:
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1987 | France | Marc Madiot | Système U | |
1988 | France | Laurent Fignon | Système U | |
1989 | France | Pascal Lino | R.M.O. | |
1990 | Belgium | Johan Bruyneel | You have called {{Contentious topics}} . You probably meant to call one of these templates instead:
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1991 | No race | |||
1992 | France | Hervé Garel | R.M.O. | |
1993 | France | Thomas Davy | Castorama | |
1994 | Spain | Angel Casero | You have called {{Contentious topics}} . You probably meant to call one of these templates instead:
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1995 | France | Emmanuel Magnien | Castorama | |
1996 | Spain | David Etxebarría | You have called {{Contentious topics}} . You probably meant to call one of these templates instead:
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1997 | France | Laurent Roux | You have called {{Contentious topics}} . You probably meant to call one of these templates instead:
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1998 | France | Christophe Rinero | You have called {{Contentious topics}} . You probably meant to call one of these templates instead:
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1999 | Spain | Unai Osa | You have called {{Contentious topics}} . You probably meant to call one of these templates instead:
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2000 | Spain | Iker Flores | You have called {{Contentious topics}} . You probably meant to call one of these templates instead:
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2001 | Russia | Denis Menchov | You have called {{Contentious topics}} . You probably meant to call one of these templates instead:
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2002 | Russia | Evgeni Petrov | You have called {{Contentious topics}} . You probably meant to call one of these templates instead:
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2003 | Spain | Egoi Martínez | You have called {{Contentious topics}} . You probably meant to call one of these templates instead:
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2004 | France | Sylvain Calzati | R.A.G.T. Semences-MG Rover | |
2005 | Denmark | Lars Bak | You have called {{Contentious topics}} . You probably meant to call one of these templates instead:
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2006 | Spain | Moisés Dueñas | You have called {{Contentious topics}} . You probably meant to call one of these templates instead:
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2007 | Netherlands | Bauke Mollema | Rabobank Continental Team | |
2008 | Belgium | Jan Bakelants | Belgium (national team) | |
2009 | France | Romain Sicard | France (national team) | |
2010 | Colombia | Nairo Quintana | Colombia (national team) | |
2011 | Colombia | Esteban Chaves | Colombia (national team) | |
2012 | France | Warren Barguil | France (national team) | |
2013 | Spain | Rubén Fernández | Spain (national team) | |
2014 | Colombia | Miguel Ángel López | Colombia (national team) | |
2015 | Spain | Marc Soler | Spain (national team) |
References
- ^ [1] Archived 2008-11-27 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ [2][dead link]
- ^ a b "le RDV des fans de cyclisme, vélo, velo, cycling, cyclo, piste, VTT". Velo-club.net. Retrieved 2013-07-15.
- ^ "Tour de l'Avenir". Éditions Larousse. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
- ^ Tour de l'Avenir: Un Costaricain premier leader
- ^ "Tour de l'Avenir Sortir43.com Haute Loire". Sortir43.com. Retrieved 2013-07-15.